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R Markdown and Pandoc Template: releasing your super powers

Published on September 11, 2017.

This is a write version of my presentation at the R user group at the University of Manchester.

Motivation

Meet Alice and Bob.

Alice and Bob are researchers. Sometimes they have awesome ideas.

And sometimes they collaborate in an shared idea.

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Skrooge: Forecast report

Published on September 2, 2017.

I’m trying to better manage my personal finances and for that I spend some time looking at accounting software that offer a good forecasting report. Understand how to get the report from Skrooge wasn’t very easy so I’m going to write how I could get it.

Account

Skrooge support different accounts so you need to create one. Just fill the information on the form and the “Add” button will be enabled.

GUADEC 2017: Ecosystem

Published on July 30, 2017.

Today is the thirday and last day of GUADEC 2017 as a conference. There will be more three day as a unconference.

On the previous two days, I learned how much a integrated ecosystem of software application can make the user experience more pleasured and, for the case of first time users, more friendly. Unfortunately, have the completely ecosystem is hard to implement and keep consistence between the softwares is even more difficult.

GUADEC 2017: Welcome

Published on July 28, 2017.

And today is the first day of GUADEC 2017.

Yesterday, the organisers hosted a great welcome drink full of amazing people.

I will soon leaving for the venue and will not miss

• The GNOME Way by Allan Day,
• Newcomer Genesis Evolution by Carlos Soriano and Bastian Ilsø,
• The Battle Over Our Technology by Karen Sandler and
• Different ways of outreaching newcomers by Julita Inca.

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GUADEC 2017: My Experience with Evolution

Published on July 27, 2017.

In a previous post, I talked about e-mail client that I used. At the current moment, I’m using Evolution, Gnome’s official “personal information management application that provides integrated mail, calendaring and address book functionality”, for more than half-year and there are some things that annoys me very much.

Before I start list all the things that make me unhappy when using Evolution, I need to say that I understand how complex a personal information management.